Ernest Hemingway certainly never heard of Amazon’s Kindle or anything to do with ebooks. But if these methods of publishing books had been available during his lifetime, I will bet the master wordsmith would have taken advantage of them.

Why – because authors now have the opportunity, with little if any cost, to post their copy-edited books on the internet for the world to see and even purchase. Recently, even though I am computer dunderhead, I was able to upload ten of my books into the Kindle format and all are now posted and available for sale at the Amazon Kindle story. It is like some of them have been re-born since many are now out of print. I also was able to post a novel, “Dandelions in the Moonlight” that I believe has great commercial potential. But for now, readers can download it and see what they think about the courage of a German Christian woman who learned that love may overcome hate when she has to trust a Nazi prison guard to save a little orphaned Russian girl during the Holocaust. All of the books are also posted on my website at www.markshawbooks.net.

Re ebooks, all one has to do is check Google to learn about software that makes turning a manuscript into an ebook that may be sold on many internet sites. Easy to do as well.

On advantage of Kindle books and ebooks- if first time authors can build up an audience for their book online, then traditional publishers will come running. Many inspirational stories prove this may occur.

So, hemingwaywantabes, look into internet publishing. Many advantages as you will see.